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Bona (Country: Philippines; Year: 1980; Director: Lino Brocka; Writer: Cenen Ramones; Stars: Nora Aunor, Phillip Salvador, Marissa Delgado, Raquel Monteza, Venchito Galvez, Rustica Carpio, Nanding Josef, Spanky Manikan, The PETA Kalinangan Ensemble, Archi Adamos, Rene Hawkins, Joel Lamangan)
Drama focusing on a woman who falls for a womaniser.
The Camp at Thiaroye (Camp De Thiaroye) (Country: Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia; Year: 1988; Director: Ousmane Sembene, Thierno Faty Sow; Writer: Ousmane Sembene, Thierno Faty Sow; Stars: Sidiki Bakaba, Hamed Camara, Ismaila Cissé, Ababacar Sy Cissé, Moussa Cissoko, Eloi Coly, Ismaël Lô, Pierre Londiche, Camara Med Dansogho, El Hadj Ndiaye, Thierno Ndiaye Doss, Oumarou Neino, Pierre Orma, Daniel Odimbossoukou, Ibrahim Sane)
Chronicles the lead-up to the Thiaroye Massacre, a horrific event in which the French military murdered hundreds of West African soldiers, who had served in the Second World War.
Compensation (Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Zeinabu irene Davis; Writer: Marc Arthur Chéry; Stars: John Earl Jelks, Michelle A. Banks, Nirvana Cobb, Kevin L. Davis, Christopher Smith, K. Lynn Stephens, Edith McLoud Armstrong, Crystal Barnes, Lisa Brock, Otis Cunningham, Jennifer Evans, Amaker Johnson, Bonnie Koss, Angela Roberts, Reginald R. Robinson)
Drama employs American Sign Language and title cards reminiscent of the silent era to tell parallel stories of two couples across two different time periods in Chicago.
The Fall Of Otrar (Country: Soviet Union, Kazakhstan; Year: 1992; Director: Ardak Amirkulov; Writer: Aleksey German, Svetlana Karmalita; Stars: Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev, Tungyshpai Zhamankulov, Bolot Beyshenaliev, Abdurashid Makhsudov, Zaur Zekhov, Kasym Zhakibayev, Sabira Atayeva, Pyotr Morozov, Sh. Khakimzhanov, Ali Tukhuzhev, A. Ashikonov, Suren Khugayev, I. Arsenyev, K. Zauirbekov, Yu. Tuyu-Tyan)
The intrigues and turmoil preceding Genghis Khan’s systematic destruction of the lost East Asian civilization of Otrar.
Four Nights Of A Dreamer (Country: France, Italy; Year: 1971; Director: Robert Bresson; Writer: Robert Bresson, Fyodor Dostoevsky; Stars: Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, Giorgio Maulini, Lidia Biondi, Patrick Jouané, Robert de Laroche, Jose Halufi, Jérôme Massart, Marku Ribas)
A eries of meetings across consecutive nights between two young strangers.
Hellraiser (Country: UK; Year: 1987; Director: Clive Barker; Writer: Clive Barker; Stars: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman)
An unfaithful wife faces demonic horrors after her dead lover escapes from Hell.
Model (Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: Frederick Wiseman; Stars: Apollonia van Ravenstein, Andy Warhol)
Documentary in a modelling agency.
La Musica (Country: France; Year: 1967; Director: Marguerite Duras, Paul Seban; Writer: Marguerite Duras; Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Robert Hossein, Julie Dassin, Gérard Blain)
A man and a woman, who are formalising their divorce, cross paths with a mysterious younger woman.
Nightshift (Country: UK; Year: 1981; Director: Robina Rose; Writer: Nicola Lane, Robina Rose; Stars: Mitch Davies, Vivianna de Blonville, Max Handley, Jordan, Anne Rees-Mogg, Heathcote Williams)
Consideration of a hotel desk clerk’s night shift.
Northern Lights (Country: US; Year: 1978; Director: John Hanson, Rob Nilsson; Writer: John Hanson, Rob Nilsson; Stars: Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano, Ray Ness, Marianna Åström-De Fina, Helen Ness, Thorbjörn Rue, Nick Eldredge, Jon Ness, Gary Hanisch, Melvin Rodvold, Adelaide Thorntveidt, Mabel Rue, Krist Toresen, Bill Ackridge)
Drama focusing on the plight of immigrant Dakotan farmers as they toil and struggle against the combined forces of industry and finance.
Reporters (Country: France; Year: 1981; Director: Raymond Depardon; Stars: Ursula Andress, Francis Apestéguy, Raymond Barre, Jean-Gabriel Barthélémy, Omar Bongo, Christian Bonnet, Yvon Bourges, Marc Bulka, François Caron, Jacques Chirac, Coluche, Mireille Darc, Jean Dausset, Florys de Bonneville, Philippe de Gaulle)
Documentary considering the relationship between photographers and their subjects.
The Sealed Soil (Khake Sar Beh Mohr) (Country: Iran; Year: 2017; Director: Marva Nabili; Writer: Marva Nabili; Stars: Flora Shabaviz)
A young woman rebels by rejecting all suitors for marriage.
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